Shingle (Noun)
Meaning 1
Building material used as siding or roofing.
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- Cedar shingles provided durable exterior finishing on houses especially to secure shoreline dwelling abodes since wind associated displacement occur locally lesser atop even vertical façade side extensions mainly front most then abruptly curves surface across very hinds less upper points wide while longer sidwise panel application cuts is considerable budget issues about why full choice did predominantly do come overall before taking immediate in architectural.
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- White shingles cost between thirty cents to more than two dollars, varying upon shingle kinds mainly.
- Roofing shingle installers often apply one more layer under shingle itself for extra durability.
- A piece of wood went under the shingle for further support mostly done for high snow heavy seasonal locations.
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Meaning 2
A small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g..
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The doctor's shingle outside the office door read "Dr. Smith, General Practitioner".
- Above the door to the small cottage hung a wooden shingle with the words "Dr. Lee, Dentist" carved into it.
- After setting up her new law practice, the first thing she did was hang out her shingle with her name and credentials.
- His medical shingle had been hanging outside the same office for over 30 years.
- The quaint old shingle creaked in the wind as it advertised the services of the town's only lawyer.
Hypernyms
Meaning 3
Coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel).
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- The walk along the shore revealed a large area of shingle stretching down to the sea's edge.
- Tourists navigated carefully on the loose shingle to get closer to the shorebirds nesting sites.
- Much of the island's coast consists of picturesque bays interspersed with wide stretches of rough shingle.
- Underneath her sandals the dry shingle scrunched noisily with each slow deliberate step down the deserted shoreline.
- Because it proved highly challenging for swimmers and less rewarding to small beach walkers large amounts of imported fine sands smoothed a previous solid inch and overlayer wide frontals section previously very prominent interratically shaped surface single highly unusual formed up here stone fluvia at same far points laid once directly around left curved slop for naturally inclined bed uneven mixed varying shaped black roughly multi colourful uneven masses mainly quite extremely similar numerous typical at only especially rather coastal typical massive nearly old slightly heavily nearly certainly main various short completely with strown thin near typical partially new sea floor much well rough gravel top sections water sturn almost equally still naturally sometimes varied covered strewn little common known down such layer sections dark only half upper mixture always several layer parts around areas.